Julie Merson is an award-winning producer and senior entertainment executive who has been developing, packaging, selling and producing television for over 20 years. She has collaborated with a wide array of writers, producers and production partners including Dwayne Johnson’s 7 Bucks, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, LeBron James’ Springhill Entertainment, Marc Platt Productions, Jessica Biel’s Iron Ocean Films, and Blumhouse Productions. She has created and produced shows for Netflix, E!, TLC, Lifetime, Bravo, Oxygen, MTV, VH1, A&E, Discovery, Science, Bravo, WeTV, Fuse, YouTube Originals and PBS. She has also pitched, developed and worked closely with buyers and executives at Apple, Disney, Hulu, Amazon, Fox, NBC, Showtime and HBO. 

Most recently, Julie served as Head of Television for Rainn Wilson’s company SoulPancake (a division of Participant Media) where she developed and sold scripted and unscripted content, and won the Environmental Media Award for best Children’s Series for her news parody KID CORRESPONDENT. Before joining SoulPancake, she served as Vice President of Development and Current Programming at 44 Blue, where she created, developed, sold and oversaw 37 projects at 16 networks and streamers, including JAILBIRDS for Netflix, and won the GLAAD Award for Outstanding Unscripted Series for STRUT, which she produced with Whoopi Goldberg. Before joining 44 Blue, Julie ran Stacy London’s production company, Super Long Play, and headed up the TV division at Washington Square Films. In her freelance days she worked in-house at MTV and VH1, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Documentary Program for TRUE LIFE: MATTHEWS MURDER about the brutal killing of Matthew Shepard, and produced music videos and feature documentaries for artists including Dave Matthews Band, Jay-Z, Pharrell, and Mary J. Blige. 

Julie is currently editing Elizabeth Pryor’s memoir about life as the Black Jewish daughter of Richard Pryor for Simon & Schuster, to be published in 2026. She is also developing Madeleine Smitherberg’s memoir about her life in late night television as creator and showrunner of the Daily Show. Julie is also developing TV adaptations of both books. 

After attending the Rocaberti Writers Retreat in 2023 as a mentee with THE WOLVES OF BROADWAY, a TV series about the rise and fall of the Broadway’s most infamous bad boy, Julie joined forces with mentor Wendy Kram to produce PARKIE, a feature film which will be directed by fellow mentor Niall Johnson. 

Julie is a proud member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America.